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I don't know if you have used the new type of elevator installed in high-rise buildings recently.

You reserve the elevator by entering the floor you want to go to on the touch panel, but the visually impaired cannot even use it properly.



Reporter Baek Woon conducted on-site coverage.



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A residential and commercial complex in Seoul where large department stores and offices are gathered.



Hee-seung Won, who is blind, 27 years old, finds it difficult to find an elevator.



[Won Hee-seung/Blind person: Can't you hear anything?

What did I press now?] I



looked for a separate elevator for the disabled, but there was none around.



[There is a sign that says no entry.] It is



a high-tech system that makes reservations for an elevator and guides you by entering the desired floor using the touch panel, but because there is no Braille, it is a wall that the visually impaired are afraid to touch.



Then, 30 minutes after the start of filming, a dot-shaped block was discovered.



[Won Hee-seung/Blind: Here it is!

Braille is said to be the top.

Nice to meet you, button like this]



But no matter how much I pressed, the disabled elevator did not come.



[Won Hee-seung/Blind person: Isn't it just not showing up?

I can't tell you where and what floor you are now?] The



person in charge replied that he was waiting for parts due to a breakdown.



The current law divides elevators into those for the disabled and for passengers, and makes it mandatory for only elevators for the disabled to display braille buttons, etc.



Our reality is that there are no minimum mandatory provisions for disabled people in passenger elevators.



[Kim Ye-ji / People's Power: If elevators are not necessarily divided into disabled and non-disabled people, but if all elevators are equipped with these systems from the development stage and production stage (there will be no difficulties)]



US, UK, Major developed countries such as Germany do not separate elevators for disabled and non-disabled people, and all elevators are stipulated to provide tactile display such as Braille and voice guidance.



(Video coverage: Lee Seung-hwan, video editing: Jo Yoon-jin, design: Cho Hyun-seo, production: video mug)